Meet the Designers

Heidi O'Donnell Eastman

A love of art, travel and all that it entails was innate in Heidi; her mother was an artist, and her father a merchant mariner. She is descended from River Clyde shipbuilders, and so knows the value and allure of the sea perhaps better than anyone. Her summers were spent in Provincetown, where she developed her artistic sensibility.  She takes a lot of her inspiration from the rolling waves and dunes and the famous Cape Cod light as well as from her favorite destinations like Paris and Ireland.

Heidi is a contradictory kind of artist; she loves to travel the world and experience new places, but always keeps part of her heart at home in New England. She is committed to being a lifelong learner and has studied at New York University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of London, and Aix-Marseille Université and the Ecole du Louvre in Paris! Yet at the same time, she is a fantastic teacher who spends much of her time sketching lesson plans and teaching world and art history to high school and university students. Her "Port to Port" world history curriculum has been presented and recognized all over the world.

Charles Eastman

Charles is the quintessential renaissance man. Architect, painter, teacher and mathematician, Charles can also be found tending his garden, raising his beloved border collie or devouring books on history.  Raised in central New York, Charles spent his summers alternating between his grandfather's Beardsley Farm between Cayuga and Seneca Lakes, and in the deep south of Louisiana along the Mississippi.  It was in the endless rippling fields of the farm and watching the flow of the mighty Mississippi that he developed his artistic sensibilities. An award winning painter and sculptor, Charles won a Ford Foundation fellowship to study in Florence, Italy. This life-changing experience led him to New York City to pursue his craft. He moved to America's oldest art colony and worked at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, where he met Heidi. Living and working in Provincetown he was surrounded by some of the 20th century's greatest American artists. He and Heidi now live in southcoast Massachusetts in a former whalers' dormitory in historic Westport.